I completed the video practice task, I found this very helpful. This taught me which angles I’m good at shooting, also which angles I’m not very good at shooting, for example I found the low angle difficult to control, as I couldn’t keep my arm steady enough to get a good shot of the singer . The establishing shot I enjoyed as this was easier to keep the camera still. Further I found the tracking shots were easier to do when I moved slower, as I had good control of the camera, it would have been better if the surface that I was walking on was flat, because it was went grass this made it hard to walk as still as possible. The other shots that I thought went well were the medium shot and the close up of the singer singing to the camera, in addition singing emotionally as I worked with the light I could capture the lip-syncing easily. These shots would have been even better with a nicer location/background. The long shot zoom to close up, close up zoom out to long shot , I seemed to capture this too fast, this taught me that I needed to go at a slower pace. Lastly the pan right across singer, pan left across singer would have been even better if I had walked on a pavement, as walking on grass made me at an awkward uneven angle. In conclusion to this practice task I learnt that doing shots at a steady pace would result to a better shot. I found that this task was helpful, as I now know what I should and shouldn’t do when I’m videoing the real music video.
